[openstack-dev] Attach an USB disk to VM [nova]

pratik maru fipuzzles at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 09:54:49 UTC 2014


Hi All,

Is there any way to do the same using Heat ?

Thanks
fipuzzles

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Serg Melikyan <smelikyan at mirantis.com>
wrote:

> Other approach to the way I have described in the mail above is to use
> openstack/os-collect-config
> <https://github.com/openstack/os-collect-config> project to handle
> downloading and running shell script.
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Serg Melikyan <smelikyan at mirantis.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If data that are you planning to pass to the VM is considerably large
>> Metadata mechanism may be used for passing at least a link to the source of
>> data and simple shell script that will executed on VM with CloudInit right
>> after the boot to obtain data via simple cURL.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Denis Makogon <dmakogon at mirantis.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Agreed with Max.
>>> With nova you can use file injection mechanism. You just need to build a
>>> dictionary of file paths and file content. But I do agree that it's not the
>>> same as you want. But it's more than
>>> valid way to inject files.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Denis Makogon
>>>
>>> понедельник, 15 сентября 2014 г. пользователь Maksym Lobur написал:
>>>
>>> Try to use Nova Metadata Serivce [1] or Nova Config Drive [2]. There are
>>>> options to pass Key-Value data as well as whole files during VM boot.
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content/metadata-service.html
>>>> [2]
>>>> http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content/config-drive.html
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Max Lobur,
>>>> OpenStack Developer, Mirantis, Inc.
>>>>
>>>> Mobile: +38 (093) 665 14 28
>>>> Skype: max_lobur
>>>>
>>>> 38, Lenina ave. Kharkov, Ukraine
>>>> www.mirantis.com
>>>> www.mirantis.ru
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:21 PM, pratik maru <fipuzzles at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Xian,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for replying.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have some data which i wants to be passed to VM. To pass this data,
>>>>>  I have planned this to attach as an usb disk and this disk will be used
>>>>> inside the vm to read the data.
>>>>>
>>>>> What I am looking is for the functionality similar to "-usb" option
>>>>> with qemu.kvm command.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please let me know, how it can be achieved in openstack environment.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> fipuzzles
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Xiandong Meng <mengxiandong at gmail.com
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> What is your concrete user scenario for this request?
>>>>>> Where do you expect to plugin the USB disk? On the compute node that
>>>>>> hosts the VM or from somewhere else?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:01 AM, pratik maru <fipuzzles at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there any way to attach an USB disk as an external disk to VM
>>>>>>> while booting up the VM ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any help in this respect will be really helpful.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>> fipuzzles
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> Xiandong Meng
>>>>>> mengxiandong at gmail.com
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